I alot of my guests come from out of state and initially complain the AC cannot get down to 72 or below.

One challenge with this is that some people only have a first initial given as their name, so the punctuation that appears next must be typed followed by any other numbers or letters.

Downside is initial investment per Unit ( 1-2 bedroom apartments ) will need about 30-40k renovation, 10-15k furnishing and if you hire people like me, it will cost you another 20k from getting the long-term tenant/vacant  and unrenovated apartment out to your first MTR tenant in your dream MTR property.

We recently found a licensed contractor reasonable enough that we now call him for things that aren't an emergency, initially saved us thousands off management's estimate for repairs due to a break-in during a turnover (apparently management calls an outside contractor to quote potential insurance claim repairs, and he was beyond ridiculously expensive).

A LOI is to initiate a general consensus of intentions, to be followed by exploration of details, to facilitate setting of exact details to transaction.

Out of state beginner investor initially looking at single family/duplex in Cleveland area to rent to section 8.

@Eric Yu & @Todd Goedeke just went back to my initial analysis, and it looks like the 50% CoC I noted in the initial post was only looking at the downpayment (didn't have any closing costs on this one). 

I didn't see any requirement for compensation in this regard, so I don't think I technically owe her anything, but offered $50 for the inconvenience, since it was longer than she initially was ok with.

We initially started with Podio, but found ourselves constantly needing to hire a developer for new adjustments.

I've found a lot more success working with newer brokers as opposed to experienced brokers, who, rightly so, have a lot of preferred buyers that they're initially bringing all of these deals to.